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- 351: Social Criticism in Literature, As Found in George Orwell's Animal Farm and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
- ... animals with insatiable appetites. Boxer, the overworked, incredibly strong, dumb horse represents the common worker in Russia. The two surrounding farms represent two of the countries on the global stage with Russia at the time, Germany and England. Orwell begins his book by criticizing the capitalists and ruling elite, who are represented in Animal Farm by Mr. Jones, the farmer. He is shown as a negligent drunk, who constantly starved his ... and apples were appropriated to the pigs, and continued to when the pigs could drink and sleep on beds, until finally the pigs were the "human masters" to the rest of the animals. Orwell criticized Germany, representing it as Pinchfield Farm, which betrayed Animal Farm by paying for lumber with counterfeit money. In real life, this represents the Soviet-Germany non-aggression pact during World War II which Germany eventually broke. Eventually, towards the end of the story, the term, "absolute power corrupts absolutely," is proven, as the pigs, who retained all the privileges ...
- 352: Sci/fi Sort Story
- ... he prayed for a cure. Once Parker made it to the White House, a message had been sent from the UN, it informed Parker and the politicians that Russia would declare war on France and Germany if the two countries objected the offer of becoming an ally with Russia. The message also noted that Russia was demanding this from France and Germany because Russia needed an ally to attack the UFO’s, which were now abducting civilians off the streets of Europe. After much debating Parker and the Politicians came to a decision of keeping the United States in a neutral position. They would only send peacekeeping forces if Russia engaged their forces on France and Germany. Part Two One month later; Germany, France and Russia became allies; UFO’s were abducting civilians on the streets of Manhattan and many more places all over the United States; Many new wars broke ...
- 353: Why Did Adolf Pick The Jews?
- ... during the Holocaust or why Holocaust even happened. Jews were the targets of Holocaust because Adolf Hitler hated Jews and blamed them for all of the problems in the world. He mainly blamed them for Germany's loss in World War I. Hitler told the German that they could have won the war, if the Germany had not been "stabbed in the back" by the Jews. While Hitler's hate was the main reason for Holocaust, we are not sure why it was allowed to go on to the death of most the Jews and the others that Hitler hated. Hitler was helped in his planning of Holocaust by the fact that discrimination against Jews was acceptable in Germany and few spoke out against it, but that is not a complete answer. We must look instead to the fact that the Nazi general beliefs permeated all things of life in Nazi Germany until ...
- 354: The Holocaust
- The Holocaust Holocaust which means a widespread human disasters special meaning is almost the complete destruction of the Jews in Europe by the Nazis in Germany .It began on January 30th, 1933 on ended on the date of May 8th, 1945 which was Adolph Hitler's death. The holocaust mainly began because Hitler said the Jews were the cause of all of Germany's problems. The German word for Jews is Judan. People who were involved with the holocaust were the Nazi's, led by Hitler, against the Jews, Slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses, communists, handicapped, political prisoners ... upside down triangle. c. Jehovah's Witnesses: purple upside down triangle d. Homosexuals: pink upside down triangle e. Criminals: green upside down triangle f. Jews: Star of David In November of 1938 all synagogues in Germany were set on fire, windows were smashed and thousands of Jews were arrested. "Night of Broken Glass: was a signal to the Jews in Germany and Austria to leave as soon as possible. World ...
- 355: "Put Yourself in My Shoes"
- ... seen in "Neighbors" and "What's in Alaska?"; in this case, the Myerses go to visit the Morgans, whose house they had lived in for a year while Professor Morgan and his wife were in Germany, but whom they have not seen since. Furthermore, the issue of empathy that surfaced in "Fat," "Neighbors," and "The Idea," the ability to visualize oneself in another's perspective, is so central here that in ... into question the appropriateness of his vocation as a writer. Hilda Morgan later narrates another story, that of Mrs. Attenborough, an Australian woman who had collapsed and died while visiting them in their home in Germany. Hilda had left her purse (containing ID cards, a check, and some cash) in a museum, where Mrs. Atttenborough had found it, minus the cash; she has taken an taxi to the Morgnas' house to ... was lying unconscious, Hilda went through her purse in search of identification, only to find the missing money. When Hilda tells that " Fate sent her to die on the couch in our living room in Germany", Myers cannot restrain his laughter. As Myers continues to giggle, Morgan pounces on him: "If you were a real writer, as you say you are, Mr. Myers, you would not laugh… You would not ...
- 356: Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
- ... a succession of wildly bizarre sight gags in Sherlock Jr. and The Navigator (both 1924); Harry Langdon was ever the innocent elf cast adrift in a mean, tough world; and director Ernst LUBITSCH, fresh from Germany, brought his "touch" to understated comedies of manners, sex, and marriage. The decade saw the United States's first great war film (The Big Parade, 1925), its first great westerns (The Covered Wagon, 1923; The ... period 1928-32 show some of the most creative uses of the medium in the early years of sound. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, however, almost all the creative film talent left Germany. An exception was Leni RIEFENSTAHL, whose theatrical documentary Triumph of the Will (1934) represents a highly effective example of the German propaganda films made during the decade.^French cinema, the most exciting alternative to Hollywood ... widely recognized directorial talent: Andrzej WAJDA and Roman POLANSKI in Poland; Jan KADAR, Milos FORMAN, Ivan PASSER, and Jiri Menzel in Czechoslovakia; and, more recently, Wim WENDERS, Werner HERZOG, and Rainer Werner FASSBINDER in West Germany. The death (1982) of Fassbinder ended an extraordinary and prolific career, but his absence has yet to be felt--particularly in the United States, where many of his earlier films are being shown for ...
- 357: Adolf Hitler
- ... a good soldier. Many of political opponents claimed that he was a coward but records clearly show that he was not. He received to awards of bravery but never achieved a high Rank. In 1918 Germany surrendered and Hitler was very upset about the loss. He believed that it was the Jews and the Communists who betrayed the "fatherland" and it was here that his disliking of the Jews most likely began. Germany after the war was in chaos. With no real Government to control the country, many groups tried to take control. One day a big communist group staged a big riot but another group of ex ... how the Jews, communists and others where threatening the master race and offered their own solutions. Hitler was bored by the meeting but when a man stood up and claimed that Bavaria should separate from Germany, Hitler got up and argued that point. He argued that Germany and germans must unite into one to survive. His natural ability to speak imprest the leader of the group and at the end ...
- 358: World War II in Europe
- ... German forces crossed into Poland in an attack so fast and brutal, they called it blitzkrieg, meaning lightning war. This time Britain and France decided to fight, and on September 3 they declared war on Germany. Roosevelt declared the United States' neutrality, but within weeks asked Congress to lift the Neutrality Acts' arms embargo that prevented Britain and France form buying American weapons. After weeks of debate, it agreed to sell ... Red Army surrounded Hitler's freezing forces. In February 1943, The remains of the invading German army, only one-third of its 330,000 men still alive, surrendered. Soviet troops then started to advance toward Germany, which ended in Berlin two years later. Allied victory in North Africa cleared the way for an attack on what Churchill called "the soft underbelly" of Europe. In August 1943, British and American forces took ... been under way for more than two years. In August American and British troops broke out of Normandy struck rapidly eastward, entering Paris on August 25, 1944. In September they crossed the western border of Germany. At the same time, the Soviets closed in from the east. In January 1944, the Red Army freed Leningrad from an 890-day German siege, during which 800,000 residents died. By spring soviet ...
- 359: The American Dream
- ... expand any further in North America and had to look at other parts of the world for expansion. At the time, there were many other nations looking to expand its empire such as Britain and Germany. Some Southern expansionists saw Cuba as an interest because it could have possibly been used as a slave territory. Because Northerners were highly against slavery, the plan was dropped. After the Civil War, Secretary of ... but the senate rejected this treaty. They were not purchased until 1917. In 1859, the U.S annexed the Midway Islands in the South Pacific, and half the Samoan Islands; the other half belonging to Germany. Hawaii, another Pacific island, had always been important to the U.S. It served as an important base for trade with Japan and China. When the U.S annexed Hawaii in 1893 after a coup ... Dream/"Ciity upon a hill" being all about superiority, no matter how it may be. The Gulf war showed that no nation should violate the interests of the United States. After the re-unification of Germany in October 1990, ending the cold war, a large number of U.S forces were no longer needed. Conveniently, at the same time, after the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, the U.S had ...
- 360: History Of Music
- ... in Italy and England, but the French roots of the inspiration remained prominent for many years. However, Italian composers continued to develop a more personal style, combining French Ars Nova concepts with Italian styles. In Germany in what came to be known as the Baroque Period, Johann Sebastian Bach was working as a musical director at St. Thomas’s Choir School in Leipzig where, apart from his brief visit to the ... at Leipzig. A year later, Napoleon abdicated and was exiled to the island of Elba. During this same time, in Italy the composer Rossini wrote Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and in Germany, Weber wrote Der Freischütz. A reaction to the strict logic of the Classicists, Romanticism began in the early 19th century and radically changed the way people looked at the world around them. Unlike Classicism, which ... found that the orderly, mechanistic universe that science thrived under was too narrow-minded, systematic and dogmatic in terms of dictating feeling or emotional thought. It was men such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Germany who wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" which epitomized what Romanticism stood for. His character expressed feelings from the heart and gave way to a new trend of expressing emotions through individuality as opposed ...
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